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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Saffer, Henry - 2011

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...

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Quantifying Climate Change Loss and Damage Consistent with a Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases

Burke, Marshall; Zahid, Mustafa; Diffenbaugh, Noah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Climate change is generating demonstrable harm around the world. Political and legal efforts have sought to associate …

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Who Should Abate Carbon Emissions? An International Viewpoint

Chichilnisky, Graciela - 1993

We review the optimal pattern of carbon emission abatements across countries in a simple multi-country world. We model …

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The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy

Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2020

This paper documents a new fact, then analyzes its causes and consequences: in most countries, import tariffs and non-tariff barriers are substantially lower on dirty than on clean industries, where an industry's "dirtiness" is defined as its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per dollar of output....

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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Companies are exposed to carbon-transition risk as the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We estimate the market-based premium associated with this transition risk at the firm level in a cross-section of over 14,400 firms in 77 countries. We find a widespread...

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The Economics of Carbon Offsets

Bushnell, James B. - 2010

Although international programs for carbon offsets play an important role in current and prospective climate-change policy, they continue to be very controversial. Asymmetric information creates several incentive problems, include adverse selection and moral hazard, in offset markets. The...

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Belts and Suspenders : Interactions Among Climate Policy Regulations

Levinson, Arik - 2010

With few exceptions, economic analyses of "cap-and-trade" permit trading mechanisms for climate change mitigation have been based on first-best scenarios without pre-existing distortions or regulations. The reason is obvious: interactions between permit trading and other regulations will be...

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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments

Dong, Yan - 2009

increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical …

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Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations

Bosetti, Valentina - 2009

In pursuit of more aggressive environmental goals, we now advance the dates at which some countries are asked to begin cutting below BAU, within our framework. We also tinker with the values for the parameters in the formulas. The resulting target paths for emissions are run through the WITCH...

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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation

Chatterji, Shurojit - 2009

We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...

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